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APPLICATION FILED APR. 13. 1914.

1,163,506. Patented Dec 7, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented a. a, 1915.

Application'filed April 13, 1914. Serial No. 831,635.

To all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that we, FITCHHULEE GAR- HELL and WILLIAM W. MOREAU,citizens of the United States of America, and residents of l/Vaco, inthe county of McLennan and State of Texas, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Tables, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to furniture and particularly to a table, thesaid invention being designed primarily as a dining room table for usepreferably in public dining rooms and the like.

An object of this invention is to ,provide novel means for adjustablysupporting the table in a normal position, novel means being providedfor elevating the table for the purpose of permitting attendants tosweep or clean thp floor around the table, the said inventionfurthermore contemplating the provision of novel means for suspendingfurniture, such as chairs, while the table is in its elevated position,thus removing all obstructions from the floor surface to facilitate thecleaning process to which ref: erence has been made heretofore.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists inthe details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination ofparts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had. to theaccompanying drawings forming part of this specification wherein likecharacters denote correspond ing parts in the several views, and inwhich- I Figure 1 illustrates a view in elevation showing the parts intheir normal position when the table is to be used; Fig. 2 illustrates aview in elevation of the device at right angles to the position of thedevice as illustrated in Fig. 1, the table being elevated and the armsfor suspending chairs being projected to support chairs which latter areshown in dotted lines; and Fig. 3.

illustrates a horizontal sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 1, thetable being broken away.

In these drawings 4 denotes a base, the lower portion of which hasapertures 5 de signed to receive anchoring means by which the base issecured to a floor, the said base having a standard 6 to which theguides 7 are secured by the fastenings 8, the said guides being spacedapart to form the way 9, in which the rack 10 is slidable. The said rack10 has teeth 11 on two sides for a purpose to be presently explained.The lower end of the rack 9 has the brackets 12 secured to it by thefastenings 13, the said brackets being of curved formation and acting assupports for the table top 14, the said table top having an aperture 15to receive the guides and rack.

On the under surface of the table, arms 15 are pivotally held by themembers 16 which members may be bolts, rivets or the like, effective tosupport the weight of a chair when the same is applied to the outer endof the arm. As shown in the drawing, the arm is of curved formationterminating at its outer end in a hook on which a chair may be swung orsuspended. The arm is pivoted in place, as stated, and therefore may beswung to a position where its outer end is within the area of the tabletop so that it will not be in the way of users of the table when chairsare not suspended from the arms.

At the upper end of the guides 7, are cross arms 17 and the outer endsof said cross arms have pivots 18 on which the toothed segments 19 aremounted, the said toothed segments having arms 20 with flexibleconnections 21 attached to them so that the segments may be operated orswung on their pivots by a pull on the flexible connections.

As has been stated, Fig. 1 illustrates the table in its normal position.when it may be used as tables are ordinarily used and when it is desiredto elevate the table and the chairs, the arms 15 are swung outwardly tothe position shown in Fig. 2 and after the chairs have been appliedthereto, the seg ments are operated to elevate the rack and consequentlythe table, so that the table and chairs are moved away from the floor topermit sweeping, mopping or other cleaning operation around the base ofthe table, after which the table may be allowed to return to its normalposition, as shown in Fig. 1.

We claim- In a table, a base, guide members having one of their endssecured to the base and being spaced apart .to form guide ways, a tablehaving a central opening adapted to accommodate the guide members, avertical bar having racks on its edges carried by the table, a portionof the bar extending below the table, said bar adapted to move in theguide, brace members extending from the under side'ofche table andhzivingone bf Infinimny whereofl five hfelinto aflix their ends securedto the bar below th'e'tfible;"oiirigfihtures in the presence of two Wit-10 cross arn'ls s'eculed to-the guidemembersedtresses. Y

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1' ments pivoted between the cross arms, each WILLIAM W. MOREAU. segmenthaving an integral handle, whereby Witnesses: I movement ofthe eegnientproduces zitrti SFH: MCCULLOOH,

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